Mustang Panda Deploys Advanced Malware to Spy on Asia-Pacific Governments

The threat actor tracked as Mustang Panda has refined its malware arsenal to include new tools in order to facilitate data exfiltration and the deployment of next-stage payloads, according to new findings from Trend Micro.
The cybersecurity firm, which is monitoring the activity cluster under the name Earth Preta, said it observed « the propagation of PUBLOAD via a variant of the worm HIUPAN. »